Abstract
In developing countries, little information is available about solid-waste characteristics, determinants for adoption and performance-evaluation of municipal-waste management systems in Municipals. This study aimed: to characterize the municipal solid-wastes, collection, dumping and evaluate the efficiency and reliability of Municipal solid-waste management system. A total of 200 households were randomly sampled and interviewed. Data was analysed using Binary-Logistic Regression model to determine factors influencing collection and dumping of solid wastes. Results showed that biodegradable/organic wastes comprise a major fraction of solid-wastes produced. Factors that influenced solid-waste collection and dumping included: household-age, unavailability of solid-waste containers, inadequate collection/dumping space and weak legal-enforcement against poor-dumping. The waste system is constrained by inadequate transport facilities, inadequate space for temporal dumping; and lack of legal enforcement in matters of solid-waste poor handling. These have made the systems ineffective and unreliable. This study recommends involvement of all stakeholders in innovative approaches to uphold sustainable municipal sanity.
Highlights
In Uganda, most waste generated in the municipalities is not adequately collected
The greatest pattern of usage is biodegradable matter. Another unique finding from the study shows that street debris which would be neglected from the waste classification is gaining prominence in the waste streams as opposed to glass in all the four divisions of the municipality
The study finding portrayed some uniqueness in that; on any type of waste generated vegetable matter and plastic would be most generated; and street debris which would be neglected from the waste classification is gaining prominence in the waste streams
Summary
In Uganda, most waste generated in the municipalities is not adequately collected. Municipal solid wastes include wastes generated from offices, hotels, shopping complexes/shops, schools, institutions, and from municipal services such as street cleaning and maintenance of recreational areas as put forward by [1]. Wastes from municipalities is usually heterogeneous and has variable physical characteristics depending on their sources [2]. He explained that the main component of municipal solid waste (MSW) comprises the biomass material such as food, paper, wood waste, clothes rage, rubber, plastics and other daily used discarded materials. These define the socio-economic structure and in particular the income levels of the people and its component portrays their consumption patterns, as observed by [3]. Municipal solid waste is any used product discarded as useless after it has lost value in the face of its first user
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